History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1951 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1960
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The idea
In nineteen sixty the Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard Nixon, who had first made his name pursuing Communists such as Alger Hiss.
In practice
A candidate whose style, the anchor says, was most evident on television.
Where people slip
Kennedy, Digital History notes, won Black support by helping secure the release of the jailed Martin Luther King Jr. weeks before the vote.
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